E-Commerce: Implications for Travel and the Environment

Rotem-Mindali, Orit

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7034-8_19

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Digital innovation and ICT is now driving another important transformation of the retail sector. In response, potential implications of online shopping on personal travel and freight travel have been studied extensively in transportation research and retail geography (Cao, 2010;Cao, Douma, & Cleaveland, 2010;Cullinane, 2009;Golob & Regan, 2001;Mokhtarian, 1990Mokhtarian, , 2004Rotem-Mindali, 2014;Rotem-Mindali & Salomon, 2007;Rotem-Mindali & Weltevreden, 2013;Weltevreden & Rotem-Mindali, 2008.…”

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Incorporating online shopping into travel demand modelling: challenges, progress, and opportunities

Süel

Polak

2017

Transport Reviews

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There is a large body of literature, spanning multiple disciplines, concerned with the relationship between traditional (physical) shopping and associated travel behaviour. However, despite the recent rapid growth of digital retailing and online shopping, the impact on travel behaviour remain poorly understood. Although the issue of the substitution and complementarity between conventional and virtual retail channels has been extensively explored, few attempts have been made to extend this work so as to incorporate virtual retail channels into modelling frameworks that can link shopping and mobility decisions. Here, we review the existing literature base with a focus on most relevant dimensions for personal mobility. How online activity can be incorporated into operational transport demand models and benefits of such effort are discussed. Existing frameworks of shopping demand are flexible and can, in principle, be extended to incorporate virtual shopping and the associated additional complexities. However, there are significant challenges associated with lack of standard ontologies for crucial concepts and insufficiencies in traditional data collection methods. Also, supply-side questions facing businesses and policy-makers are changing as retailing goes through a digital transformation. Opportunities and priorities need to be defined for future research directions for an assessment of existing tools and frameworks

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Incorporating online shopping into travel demand modelling: challenges, progress, and opportunities

Süel

Polak

2017

Transport Reviews

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“…When all things are considered, e-commerce may generate new demand and, therefore, induce deliveries that would not take place otherwise. Moreover, where trips to the store are used for another activity or to purchase multiple items, there may not be fewer trips when some items are purchased through e-commerce ( 9 ). Furthermore, express deliveries build more pressure on carriers and yield sub-optimal routings.…”

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“…Rotem-Mindali ( 9 ) states that e-commerce might not have any effect on reducing trips to shops. In general, literature remains uncategorical on that.…”

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Application of a Tax to E-Commerce Deliveries in Barcelona

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Gasparín

Saurí

2021

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The number of e-commerce transactions is increasing worldwide. Deliveries of goods purchased online generate externalities throughout the whole supply chain and, particularly, the increasing concern about the last-mile distribution of goods. The escalating presence of vans in cities contributes to poor air quality, climate change, noise, and congestion. So far, the majority of solutions to address this issue are based on the supply side, such as electric vans, optimizing the routing and pick-up-points, and so forth. Even in other transport sectors, pricing solutions are well known, yet they have not been extended to e-commerce delivery. This paper aims to propose an environmental tax falling on the demand side and equaling the externalities from this activity. The analysis has been particularized for the case of Barcelona. A cost–benefit analysis to assess the impact of such a tax has been carried out. When revenue collection is reinvested in the logistics sector, and for subsidizing electric distribution vehicles, the results indicate that the levying of the tax can generate positive outcomes.

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A hazard-based approach to modelling the effects of online shopping on intershopping duration

Daina

Polak

2017

Transportation

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Despite growing prevalence of online shopping, its impacts on mobility are poorly understood. This partially results from the lack of sufficiently detailed data. In this paper we address this gap using consumer panel data, a new dataset for this context. We analyse one year long longitudinal grocery shopping purchase data from London shoppers to investigate the effects of online shopping on overall shopping activity patterns and personal trips. We characterise the temporal structure of shopping demand by means of the duration between shopping episodes using hazard-based duration models. These models have been used to study inter-shopping spells for traditional shopping in the literature, however effects of online shopping were not considered. Here, we differentiate between shopping events and shopping trips. The former refers to all types of shopping activity including both online and in-store, while the latter is restricted to physical shopping trips. Separate models were estimated for each and results suggest potential substitution effects between online and in-store in the context of grocery shopping. We find that having shopped online since the last shopping trip significantly reduces the likelihood of a physical shopping trip. We do not observe the same effect for inter-event durations. Hence, shopping online does not have a significant effect on overall shopping activity frequency, yet affects shopping trip rates. This is a key finding and suggests potential substitution between online shopping and physical trips to the store. Additional insights on which factors, including basket size and demographics, affect inter-shopping durations are also drawn.

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E-Commerce: Implications for Travel and the Environment

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

Incorporating online shopping into travel demand modelling: challenges, progress, and opportunities

Incorporating online shopping into travel demand modelling: challenges, progress, and opportunities

Application of a Tax to E-Commerce Deliveries in Barcelona

A hazard-based approach to modelling the effects of online shopping on intershopping duration

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